How the record has moved
Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.
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Wednesday 2 September
First reported
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acreage not yet reported
42
days burning so far
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no share of the perimeter reported held yet
The official record as of 9:09am today
The Lac-315038 Fire is on the interagency wildfire record in Los Angeles County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
42 days
on record — first written down on Wednesday 2 September at 11:12pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
34.578, -118.076lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 3.2 miles from the fire: 54°F, air at 33% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Lac-350349 Fire started on Monday 28 September, 0.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315707 Fire started 822 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles east, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-315242 Fire started 401 minutes after this one, 1.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-307747 Fire started on Friday 28 August, 1.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-313514 Fire started on Tuesday 1 September, 1.5 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Lac-296494 Fire started on Thursday 20 August, 2.3 miles west, and has reached an unrecorded size. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground two times so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.